Pension: In this state, retirees receive the most

The average old-age pension is almost nowhere as high as in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Only in one federal state do pensioners get more money.

Cologne – The keyword pension is consistently present in professional life.

When they start a job, people pay into a pension fund to provide for their retirement.

When you finally quit your job and start retiring, ideally the pension payments should financially secure your accustomed standard of living.

There are almost 22 million pensioners in Germany, around one in five comes from North Rhine-Westphalia.

With the average amount of pension payments, NRW pensioners receive a particularly large amount of money compared to retirees from other federal states.

Only in one federal state do pensioners get more money.

Pension in NRW: Retirees receive an above-average amount of money

This emerges from the Pension Atlas 2022, which is published by the German Pension Insurance (DRV).

If retirees have accumulated at least 35 years of insurance in their professional career, they receive an average gross old-age pension of 1,564 euros in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The amount is around six percent above the national average.

If you compare the federal states with each other, NRW is in second place - behind a neighbor: only in Saarland is the amount of the old-age pension a little higher, at just under 1,600 euros.

In the summer, pensions are to rise again nationwide.

In many cases, however, the statutory pension is still a long way from the average level of pension, i.e. the pension for civil servants, for example – according to the Federal Statistical Office, it is around EUR 3,170 gross.

Highest pensions in NRW and Saarland - lowest in East Germany

The two federal states with the highest salaries are therefore in the extreme west of Germany.

A nationwide comparison also reveals a clear trend: the five lowest average values ​​for pension payments are all in eastern Germany, with Thuringia bringing up the rear with 1,346 euros.

Saxony-Anhalt comes off only slightly better with a gross amount of 1,353 euros.

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Only in one federal state is the average old-age pension higher than in NRW.

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Average gross pension: women receive a third less

There are also clear differences between the sexes.

While a man in Germany draws an average of EUR 1,637 gross in old-age pension, women receive EUR 1,234, more than 30 percent less.

The gap between male and female is particularly strong in Baden-Württemberg.

There, the amount that women receive on average is almost 43 percent below that of men.

In NRW, too, the difference is more than 40 percent.

Demographic change means more and more pensioners in Germany

The figures refer to the end of 2021. In total, DRV paid out almost 350 billion euros that year, an increase of around 2.5 percent compared to the previous year.

This is also due to the fact that there are more and more pensioners due to demographic change.

According to figures from the Federal Statistical Office, the number of retirees has increased by around 127,000 compared to the previous year.

Since 1991, the number of people aged 65 and over has increased from 12 million to more than 18 million.

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